St. Urbain's Horseman - Softcover

Richler, Mordecai

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771075197 ISBN 13: 9780771075193

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 2001

Synopsis

13131--. St. Urbain s Horseman is a complex, moving, and wonderfully comic evocation of a generation consumed with guilt guilt at not joining every battle, at not healing every wound. Thirty-seven-year-old Jake Hersh is a film director of modest success, a faithful husband, and a man in disgrace. His alter ego is his cousin Joey, a legend in their childhood neighbourhood in Montreal. Nazi-hunter, adventurer, and hero of the Spanish Civil War, Joey is the avenging horseman of Jake s impotent drea

About this title

About the Author:

Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, Barney's Version, was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize.

Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Review:

“The most brilliant and exciting new novel in years...Mordecai Richler has written a masterpiece.”
–The New Leader

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0771075197
• ISBN 13: 9780771075193
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504